Pella, Jordan

The story of the classical-era city of Europos, whose residents were the first people to be called Europeans according to ancient inscriptions, takes center stage in a new exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

A “first-of-its-kind” Hellenistic temple in the Levant region has been discovered in Umm Qais, an archaeologist said on Monday.
An archaeological excavation team from Yarmouk University has recently discovered a Hellenistic temple and network of water tunnels, Atef Sheyyab, president of the archaeology department at the university told the Jordan Times.